Business and Made in Italy Minister
Adolfo Urso told a meeting in Rimini on Thursday that Stellantis
has to relaunch the automotive sector in Italy, noting that "the
government played its part, Stellantis didn't".
In particular, the minister asked the carmaker to provide "a
response shortly" to the government on the project to build a
battery-making plant in Termoli, saying it would otherwise
invest resources from the post-Covid Nattional Recovery and
Resilience Plan (PNNR) "elsewhere".
Automotive Cells Company, a battery joint venture in which
Stellantis is the largest investor, plans to build three
gigafactories in Europe but has announced it is halting plans
for two of them, in Italy and Germany.
Meanwhile, the Secretary General of labour union CISL Luigi
Sbarra on Thursday, speaking on the sidelines of the 45th
edition of the gathering in Rimini organized by Catholic
organisation Comunione e Liberazione (Communion and Liberation,
CL), said that an estimated 25,000 Stellantis jobs are at risk
in 2025.
In the first semester of 2024, he said, "the group's production
of vehicles decreased by 25% compared to 2023".
"Concern has been expressed in nearly all Italian plants,
including in some in which redundancy funds are about to expire
and, if no interventions are made through legislation aimed at
extending them, we risk losing 25,000 jobs in 2025", he
concluded.
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